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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (3): 289–298.
Published: 01 September 2019
...Mitchum Huehls Contemporary Drift: Genre, Historicism, and the Problem of the Present , by Martin Theodore . New York : Columbia University Press , 2017 . 250 pages. Minor Characters Have Their Day: Genre and the Contemporary Literary Marketplace , by Rosen Jeremy . New...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (3): 283–304.
Published: 01 September 2020
...Aleksandr Prigozhin This essay demonstrates the centrality of impersonal intimacy to Virginia Woolf’s modernist poetics. In contrast to the major forms of intimacy—marriage, friendship, and family—the “minor” intimacies to which Woolf attends generate a sense of significant relation...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (1): 114–124.
Published: 01 March 2009
..., sites, experiences have
become broadly representative of that social moment itself” and “have
built a normative narrative for immigrants across the board” (7). This
argument, while stressing the needed inclusion of minorities in the forma
tion of modern American identity, tends to become...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) 60 (4): 455–480.
Published: 01 December 2014
... that would bring together urban
professional and minority (especially African American and Mexican
American) voters. The War on Poverty, which brought idealistic young
professionals into poor communities, while also helping select members of
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Cockroach Dreams: Oscar Zeta Acosta, Legal Services...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (1): 25–52.
Published: 01 March 2022
... authoritarianism, Jim Crow structures of oppression in the United States, and fascism in Greece (1939–45) and Francoist Spain (1967–74). By translating poets from a range of so-called minor literatures, including Ovidio Martins and Gabriel Morano (Cape Verde), Zoltan Zelk (Hungary), Yeghishe Charents (Armenia...
FIGURES
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (1): 147–156.
Published: 01 March 2020
... racialization—what the novel calls a “third thing”—to the legacy of US imperialism in Asia, offering along the way an entirely different origin story for the model minority. American empire building in Asia, alongside previous colonial hierarchies and Cold War exigencies, secures the apparent “success...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (2): 161–190.
Published: 01 June 2018
.... Lewis’s The American Adam (1955), and Leo Marx’s The Machine in the Garden (1964), and it continues to be reproduced in present-day America. But the continuing struggles of and among minority groups to become socially white and the perpetual social and economic marginality of African Americans point...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) 60 (1): 119–127.
Published: 01 March 2014
... explores the end, or future, of this period of collaboration
and competition in the two closing chapters of Commonwealth of Letters.
Chapter Seven, which I will discuss in more detail later, covers Jean
Rhys’s transformation from a minor interwar modernist into a major
postcolonial artist...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2005) 51 (1): 43–63.
Published: 01 March 2005
...
irresponsible, and available not only to artists or to exceptional people
in whatever discipline. Those emerging from the ivory tower are better
prepared, Forster believes, to engage the complexity of life and art; while
celebrating appreciators who become in their “minor way an artist,” as he
would...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (1): 116–121.
Published: 01 March 2010
... presumed close relation to the natural world aroused eco-
critical interest from the beginning, no other American minority litera-
tures or cultural traditions outside the United States or Britain attracted
much attention in a field that in its own way was as steadfastly committed
to the centrality...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (3): 385–391.
Published: 01 September 2020
... of self-legitimating practices among the carriers of the modernist sensibility” (11). Having resolved not to define modernism, Livak proposes that we see it as a cultural community, one of three “minority cultures of modernity” (8–9) in Russia (the other two are the traditional intelligentsia...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2003) 49 (4): 472–493.
Published: 01 December 2003
... domestic assumptions about
women. She is a serious literary aspirant to a line dominated by men.
In this aspiring, Smith poses as a minor poet. She pretends to be a
“doodler” of words, and when she does use the poetry of the past, as Ali
son Light notes, she often puts forward what...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2001) 47 (4): 596–618.
Published: 01 December 2001
.... A socialist and activist sym
pathetic to black radical politics in the 1960s and 70s, Dhondy has al
ways seen his intellectual life and politics in terms of speaking to the
cause of all minorities, not just South Asians. His recent biography/mem
oir of C. L. R. James certainly attests to his...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2007) 53 (3): 345–370.
Published: 01 September 2007
... and consolidating power abroad.
For Asian American authors in the late twentieth century, such a nar
rative expectation o f reconciliation— between aggrieved minority and the
nation-state that has so often been the source o f racial grief—has m eant
that their characters could easily become...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (2): 254–259.
Published: 01 June 2010
... own as a cultural movement” not least with the “estab-
lishment of three significant centers of Yiddish research in the cities of
Vilna, Kiev, and Minsk” (47). He argues that while the 1905 revolution
“delivered few tangible political freedoms to Russia’s ethnic minorities,” it
produced...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2005) 51 (3): 378–384.
Published: 01 September 2005
...” (101). In this respect they
occupy a more self-conscious version o f the position held by two other
groups Lee discusses: Asian Americans, whose status as model minorities
affirms notions of black and Latino inferiority, and members of the Afri
can American middle class, whose upward...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2005) 51 (3): 385–390.
Published: 01 September 2005
... on the politics of silence for minorities in the US, invoking Audre
Lourde and Tillie Olsen at the outset and briefly bringing together re
spected commentators on various kinds of institutional silence, including
the erasure of African American history, the invisibility of Asian Americans...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (1): 189–195.
Published: 01 March 2013
..., other than the abstract designa-
tion which may be disputed?
The temporary solution Nash adopts is to link these representa-
tions based on four common narrative tropes that he explores in four
separate chapters: the trope of Muslims as a migrant minority in Brit-
ain, that of Muslims...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (3-4): 291–308.
Published: 01 December 2011
... Culture, in which he argues
that “the fractured subject” that many critics identify as a hallmark of
postmodern culture “has long formed a staple element of minority
literatures” (Dubey 21), Madhu Dubey’s 2003 study Signs and Cities: Black
Literary Postmodernism demonstrates how anti-realist...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2007) 53 (1): 67–73.
Published: 01 March 2007
... resembling) English monolingualism. In emigrating from
Europe to the United States, Jews, in marked contrast with most of the
southern and middle European groups who arrived around the same
time, did not go from being a linguistic national majority to a linguistic
minority...
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